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Summary:
Sugihara is dismayed to learn that nothing really happened between Kiri and Hiroki. She even calls the two grade-schoolers for talking mainly about work, food, and television. Elis, who is still working on getting over her red-phobia, gets called to the director’s office about the France study abroad, but she still hasn’t decided yet. Her brother, meanwhile, gets an invitation to Yanagi’s upcoming art exhibition. Kiri gets the same invitation, but assumes that Hiroki didn’t. The next day, Hiroki sits down beside Kiri during lunch, but their conversation is limited to work, food, and television. A frustrated Kiri gets angry about it and leaves the table.
Yanagi’s exhibition is also the talk of the art club, and Hiroki offers to lead them there. They arrive at roughly the same time that Kiri is presenting Yanagi with a bouquet of flowers. After some friendly greetings, Yanagi goes off to attend to the other guests, so Hiroki and Kiri start to look at his art. Hiroki admits that when Yanagi first won the contest all those years ago with the stolen drawing, he had wanted to go tell the sponsors. But he’s now glad that he didn’t because he admires Yanagi’s work. He does, however, feel that his own progress has stopped, but Kiri disagrees because Hiroki is now going down his own path in becoming a teacher. After the event is over, Yanagi calls Kiri and invites her on a dinner date.
Following Sugihara’s advice, Kiri decides to try to get a reaction out of Hiroki by telling him about Yanagi’s invitation. Hiroki only gets her angry by not seeming to care. Kana later sets him straight by telling him that Kiri was looking for jealousy and that he should have expressed his true feelings. When Kiri’s and Yanagi’s date finally comes around, Kiri ends up talking mostly about Hiroki. Yanagi eventually says that he understands that Kiri has her eyes on Hiroki, just like in high school.
After dinner, Yanagi takes Kiri to the park and finally admits that he’s liked her for a long time. He tries to lean in for a kiss, but she pushes him away. Yanagi confesses that he just wanted to be honest and properly tell her. He encourages her to also convey her true feelings (to Hiroki) and tells her to try her best once again. From that last sentence, Kiri realizes that Yanagi knew about the first rejection. Yanagi turns her around and pushes her forward, yet again encouraging her to convey her feelings. The next day, Kiri asks Hiroki to meet her that evening on the rooftop. When the time comes, she follows Yanagi’s advice and tells Hiroki that she likes him.

To my surprise, this episode ends up being less about Yanagi confessing his feelings to Kiri, and more about him getting her to do the same to the person she likes. And while he is fulfilling the duty that most of us assumed he would (bringing Hiroki and Kiri together), I did not imagine that he would turn out to be such a nice guy in doing so. He got off to a rocky start, but after this episode, I’m beginning to like his character a little more.
Although we’re pretty close to the end (four more episodes), I don’t think that Hiroki is ready to accept Kiri’s feelings quite just yet. The preview doesn’t help much, and the Newtype spoilers seem to point to an Elis episode next week, so there’s no help there either. I just hope Hiroki doesn’t just put off answering Kiri until the last episode.

he confesses to Kiri, but Kiri rejects him. Instead of getting all creepy though, he pushes her to go and tell Hiroki how she feels, leading to Kiri to decide to try again. Although why she would want to try on the roof again after how badly that turned out is beyond me… What’s past is prologue. Even the shakey camera angles…

Ive got to admit, i have really warmed up to Kiri. She is brave, kind, and cute. Ive been a staunch Elise fan up til now, but i won’t cry myself to sleep if it is KirixHiroki in the end. The deal with Junichi, the villanous Nemu, and my poor Kotori on the other hand… T-T

I’m pretty sure this is a 26 episode series. Did it get cut down?Show Spoiler ▼

The comment “for some reason” pretty much somes up how satisfying it would be if that were to happen, after all that’s happened for 20 episodes… not satisfying at all. If Hiroki rejects her this time, he better actually be able to articulate a friggin’ reason this time. Because all they’ve shown is that he likes her, and has liked her since they were younger, and just misinterpreted things. Although with 6 episodes, to go, who knows. They still need to reveal that thing about Tomoko hinted at in episode 2-ish (the fact that she appears to have been at the same hospital as Elis when she was younger, and met Hiroki there, I think… assuming that was Tomoko – it certainly looked like her).

Well, even if they resolved the romantic side, there’s still other drama left, like Hiroki’s painting issues. But I won’t disagree – in all likelihood they’ll drag on the romantic side too. I’d rather they didn’t. But if they do, I just hope it isn’t too much of a cop out.

This series is 24 total episodes. We’re pretty much in the final stretch now with only four more episodes left, and they’ve got three main storylines left to resolve: HirokixKiri, Hiroki and drawing, and Elis and her France trip.

There’s still a lot of drama available in this series without it being about their romance. Regardless of who Hiroki picks, they still have to deal with the Paris trip, Elis and the color red, and why, precisely, Hiroki is having problems painting. And I have to agree that we still haven’t seen anything in the series that indicates that he likes Elis that way. If that’s the way this goes, then this would have to be the most random, out of left field ending ever (well, okay, discounting the Negima anime). I think Fury has posted the most likely ending. It’ll probably be a rejection in the next episode (or a no answer) because he feels like he has to take care of Elis and is unable to commit to any kind of relationship, at which point after she resolves her own issues, she’ll tell him to do his best with Kiri, leading up to a Hiroki confession to Kiri.

Well, in the game, Hiroki confesses through a big achievement, by painting again, and painting a picture of the one he loves. Not unlike the first Canvas. That’s probably what they’re going to hold out for. Certainly sounds that way from the Newtype preview, which, although it may focus on Elis, appears to also have some focus on Hiroki’s painting issues…

Anyway, only 24 episodes after all, eh? Hmmm. I remember reading 26 so long ago. Anyway, that’s good, leaves some hope for Kiri, cause they’ll have to do some pretty major footwork to shift things in 4 episodes to someone else while solving the rest of the remaining issues of the main characters…